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Petitions June 22nd, 1995
Madam Speaker, my second petition calls on Parliament to amend the Divorce Act to include a provision similar to article 611 of the Quebec civil code, which states that in no case may a father or mother, without serious cause, place obstacles between the child and grandparent, and failing agreement between the parties the modalities of the relations are settled by the court.
Petitions June 22nd, 1995
Madam Speaker, I have the pleasure of presenting three petitions.
The first one calls upon Parliament to request the federal minister responsible for Canada Post to consider bringing in legislation requiring all unsolicited mail and flyers to use recyclable materials and amend the Canada postal act so that Canada Post will have to comply with no flyer signs at personal residences.
Columbia River Treaty Permanent Engineering Board June 22nd, 1995
Madam Speaker, I have just returned from a conversation with the government whip about another matter and I did not hear what happened with respect to petitions.
Business Development Bank Of Canada Act June 21st, 1995
Mr. Speaker, NDP members vote no on the motion.
(The House divided on Motion No. 1, which was agreed to on the following division:)
G-7 Summit June 21st, 1995
Mr. Speaker, I offer an alternative version of the interpretation being put on the G-7 summit by the Prime Minister.
The G-7 summit did not deal in any significant way with a lot of the serious problems facing the international economy. The G-7 summit did not deal with growing polarization between rich and poor within industrialized countries and between industrialized countries and the third world. It did not deal with the international debt problem of third worlds.
Finally and most significantly, because this is what the Prime Minister likes to talk about, it did not deal with the whole question of money speculators.
All it did was provide that the IMF might have more money in the end to bail out economies damaged by speculators. When we bail out those economies in the current context we bail out the speculators themselves.
What we have increased here is the global welfare state for money speculators rather than dealing with the root of the problem which is curbing speculation-
Business Development Bank Of Canada Act June 21st, 1995
Mr. Speaker, the NDP votes yes and agrees to the application of the other two votes as suggested by the whip of the government party.
(The House divided on Motion No. 24, which was agreed to on the following division):
Business Development Bank Of Canada Act June 21st, 1995
Mr. Speaker, the NDP members vote yes on this motion.
(The House divided on Motion No. 10, which was negatived on the following division:)
Business Development Bank Of Canada Act June 21st, 1995
Mr. Speaker, NDP members vote nay on this motion.
(The House divided on Motion No. 9, which was negatived on the following division:)
Business Development Bank Of Canada Act June 21st, 1995
Mr. Speaker, the NDP votes no on this motion.
(The House divided on Motion No. 8, which was negatived on the following division:)
Business Development Bank Of Canada Act June 21st, 1995
Mr. Speaker, the NDP votes yes on this motion.
(The House divided on Motion No. 7, which was negatived on the following division:)